Showing All "Joey Bada$$" Posts
Apr 4th 4 Comments
Later today, the Hot 97 DJ Peter Rosenberg will release New York Renaissance, a new mixtape that's already yielded Action Bronson's "Compliments 2 The Chef" and World's Fair's "96 Knicks." And now we… Read Story »
Mar 22nd Comment
The Beast Coastal Tour kicked off in Portland last night with performances from Joey Bada$$ and his Pro Era crew, Flatbush Zombies, and the Underachievers. The inspired grouping played the small… Read Story »
Mar 6th Comment
When teenage Brooklyn boom-bap revivalist Joey Bada$$ teamed up with the great rap-fundamentalist producer DJ Premier, they named the track "Unorthodox," even though it's one of the most orthodox… Read Story »
Feb 26th 2 Comments
For "Wendy N Becky," a freebie track posted on Soundcloud yesterday, the teenage Brooklyn '90s-rap revivalist Joey Bada$$ linked up with Chance The Rapper, a furiously creative Chicago kid who raps… Read Story »
Feb 7th 2 Comments
Teenage backpack-rap revivalist hasn't slowed down one second since bubbling up to national attention about a year ago, and now he's got a new single called "Underground Airplay" that pairs him up… Read Story »
Jan 31st 4 Comments
By the end of last year, compiling Monthly Mixes became a sad task. Each month I'd scan in sadness, watching our strongest songs presented as straight-to-Soundcloud affairs, our music business… Read Story »
Jan 30th 5 Comments
Rap has reached into weird directions when entire rap feuds can flare up and die down literally overnight. Here's the history on this one: Last year, on Joey Bada$$'s breakout single "Survival… Read Story »
Jan 24th Comment
On last year's K.O.N.Y. mixtape, the well-connected Harlem rapper Smoke DZA linked with the young Brooklyn boom-bap fundamentalist Joey Bada$$ to go all dead-eyed over a mournful old J Dilla beat.… Read Story »
Jan 14th 6 Comments
The teenage Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ has built his name by resurrecting the grimy, polysyllabic boom-bap that was one of New York's chief exports during the 1990s. So in his first track for… Read Story »
Dec 26th, 2012 1 Comment
On Christmas Eve, the young Brooklyn rapper Capital Steez died at the age of 19. No cause has been reported, but the night before, Steez posted a message on his Twitter that simply read "The end.,"… Read Story »
